Beauty & Spas in La Crescenta-Montrose

Fire-engine-red walls and jet-black furnishings surround beauty transformations at Nail & Hair Bar, a fashion haven that upholds a high level of sanitization and keeps up-to-date on style trends. Nails varnished with mirror-silver polish reflect smiling faces and ceiling-dwelling ghosts as french-tipped finger-ends sport geometrically square nails. After clients slink into plush styling chairs, shears-wielders snip hair into angular bobs or twist tresses into ringlet-laden up-dos.

When Chris Vaughn raises a blade to people's throats, they usually thank him. That's because they're reclined on a barber's chair in The Brighton Shave Co., a men's grooming outpost modeled after traditional American and English barbershops. Before these men enjoy one of the shop's four shaves, though, they must absorb warm moisture from the hot towel draped around their face and the pies cooling on their shoulders, a practice which softens skin and opens pores to allow the closest possible shave. Once skin is set, staff members—also known as the Brighton Classix—lather it with imported products from London brand Geo F Trumper and with botanical blends from True Gentlemen before shaving stubble with regular or straight razors.

Upstairs on the mezzanine level, a pair of stylists operates Brighton's women's salon. Bruce Law expertly edits manes, drawing on 25 years of experience working in salons and the entertainment industry, and Ona J specializes in bolstering thinning manes with extensions and hair-replacement units.

To Samson Hair Restoration's physicians, hair restoration is equal measures of art and science. Although some surgeons concern themselves with follicle count and price per graft, the Samson team takes a collaborative, results-based approach, starting cases with artistic renderings of ideal scalps to give patients a clear idea of their post-op cranial canopy or what they would look like with fettuccini for hair. Staffers draw on the Quadrian hairline technique—which focuses on the front hairline to create a natural-looking coif—and plastic-surgery tricks to help to minimize donor-area scarring.

The MD in Be Spa MD is Leif Rogers, a plastic surgeon who takes care to recommend the best course of treatment for each patient he sees, whether that treatment is surgical or not. During each procedure, Dr. Rogers shows his inherent flair for all things aesthetic as he and his staff use various techniques, including scar revision, ear reconstruction, liposuction, and eye-lifts, to gently improve patients’ looks for a result natural enough to make immortal forest nymphs jealous.

In his career as a Beverly Hills cosmetic physician, Dr. Robert Nettles weaves together his medical, artistic, and inventive talents to bring his patients solutions for their cosmetic issues. His innovations in cosmetic derma surgery include the Nettles method of hair transplants and nonsurgical rhinoplasty that offers nose reshaping without costly hospital stays or fad nose diets. Adopting an empathetic demeanor, the renowned doctor allays patient concerns during pretreatment consultations that match each person's beauty goals with the right treatment. Nettles Non-Surgical Beauty—as well as the doctor's numerous contributions to the field of medical cosmetics—has also been praised on an array of major media outlets that include the Bravo and Fox networks and the Los Angeles Times.

Almost everything starts with a handshake. That’s how many people begin friendships, partnerships, or epic rivalries that span generations. And it isn’t just the firmness of a good shake that gets one’s attention. It’s the maintenance of the hand with which they’re conjoined. Casablanca Nail Salon understands.

That’s why the nail-art salon lavishes hands and feet with natural sugar scrubs, grapefruit and botanical extracts, and skin-softening paraffin. Recognizing the importance of first impressions, staffers welcome clients with complimentary cups of warm moroccan tea and lead them to massaging pedicure thrones in the shade of a fabric awning. After treatment, nail technicians coat nails with OPI or Zoya polish. They can also decorate keratin surfaces with unique art that can suit a wide range of style preferences.